Word: sovietologists
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During the fall, Moscow was awash with rumors that the rightists had talked Gorbachev into a crackdown. German Sovietologist Nerlich, who was in Moscow in November, heard a particularly unnerving -- and unconfirmed -- story. During a Politburo meeting on Nov. 16, an army-KGB-conservative bloc supposedly presented Gorbachev with an ultimatum that Nerlich summarizes this way: "Within six weeks he had to get things under control in the republics, Moscow and Leningrad or there would be physical ways of removing him." Janis Jurkans, foreign minister of the Latvian republic, tells a different story of a November ultimatum. He said last...
That expertise will come in handy as the $30 billion-a-year intelligence community budget is retargeted to accommodate a changed world. But the community's crucial task in the years ahead, says Harvard Sovietologist Richard Pipes, "will involve the proper interpretation of political, economic and social intelligence." The Tower group "is going to be great when it comes to helping us verify arms reductions," says Moynihan. "But what we are really going to need to know is whether the Soviet Communist Party is going to implode, and how we can compete in the 21st century as other nations play...
...repeated urgings to take the position of Executive President until he concluded that it was what the country needed. Because -- or in spite -- of his year as an exchange student at Columbia University in 1959, Yakovlev dislikes and distrusts the U.S. and considers it dominated by right-wing thinking. Sovietologist Dimitri Simes says he is "unusually intellectually curious, a person with imagination, with vision...
...Russian history, and Gromov denies rumors that he is contemplating a coup, but he says the army "cannot be kept outside politics." His political views are unknown, but he is a conservative on military matters who nevertheless acknowledges that change is inevitable. If the government flounders and chaos threatens, Sovietologist Simes says Gromov "would be the man to watch...
Alexander Yakovlev, one of Gorbachev's closest Kremlin aides, worked on a dissertation about F.D.R. while an exchange student at Columbia University in 1958. "What struck Yakovlev most about Roosevelt," says Loren Graham, a Sovietologist who was a classmate at Columbia, "was how Roosevelt understood that to save the system he had to give up much that wasn't central in order to preserve the essence." The lifting of the Iron Curtain shows that Yakovlev wasn't the only one who understood that point...